The Collectible Minifig Packs were a no show at Toy Fair this year. LEGO decided to pull them at the last minute, only to bring them out again for the regular show attendees (i.e. buyers and I suppose "real" press). No satisfactory reason was given, at least none that made any sense to me.

ANYWAYS, all griping aside, the press kit did come with a pic of the series 2 selection. Some stats:

Series 1:» $1.99 USD
» $2.99 CAD
» Available in June

Series 2:» $1.99 USD
» $2.99 CAD
» Available in September

Pardon the poor photo, but I did the best I could with my camera and available light and cleaned it up as much as possible. Check it out below:

Solo wrote:Yes, the trade forum will probably have a dedicated thread for these. Everyone who wants to trade can post in it, and they can list their haves and wants all color coded for easy browsing and a note if they mind shipping internationally. That's my suggestion for it at least.

onions wrote:sounds like you just volunteered to manage the thread.

thanks, don!

Interestingly, this is also how Don became FBTB's official bear bait on camping trips.

Should I buy like 20 or 30 all at once, or will that just give me 20 or 30 of the same one?

Representatives from LEGO stated that each box (which will contain 60 packs) will be filled randomly and that, in each serie, some minifigs may be rarer than others. That means boxes will not necessarely have an equal amount of every minifig pack.

In short, in order to trully get what you want (say, one of each), you might have to buy multiple packs or pay a problably much higher price on the secondary market.

Are you feeling lucky, punk? If there's 60 box, 16 figures, then surely - but surely!! - each one must appear once. Those numbers give Lego plenty of leeway to put 1 copies of some, 2 of some and 3 of some in a whole box. Could they be a nasty as to leave some of the figures out of the boxes completely?

This is all speculation of course, I'm just choosing to believe that Lego may be in the business of being in business but they're not that nasty. I hope so anyway because buying whole boxes the way I completed my Garbage Pail Kids collection!

Yeah, I applied and someone sent me a PM. Within it said this:1) Send a PayPal Money Request to the Trading Guild e-mailYour request must be sent to the following address : [email protected]Please don't forget to cancel this request after you have been approved.

Well, in another "random" product I buy (Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures), the cases seem to be pretty reliable about their content. One case will have half of the rares, 1.5 of each Uncommon (1 copy of half of them, 2 copies of the other half), and 4 of each common. That is how every case I ever bought (and I bought them for several sets) broke down. So, while the product can be random, the packing on the case level doesn't have to be absolutely random.

If LEGO goes a similar route, that would mean a case should have a specific breakdown. The random part can be which order the boxes go in the case, and therefore which order they end up on the shelf. I hope that makes sense. The overall content of a case can be fixed but the location within the case of each figure doesn't have to be fixed so when they are put out you are still essentially shotting in the dark (but you know that case, at one point, had the entire set). If that is the way LEGO chooses to go.

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